Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.